6. Cemetery Bye Laws No.s 12, 14, 15, 33, 34, 38, 40: Responsibilities and Conduct of Members of the Public When Visiting Cemeteries (See Section D of Summary Document)

Interruption of Interment

12.

Any person unlawfully preventing or attempting to prevent the interment of any person in a cemetery, or unlawfully preventing or disturbing the celebration of funeral rites over any person, shall be in breach of these Bye Laws.

Visitors

14.

1. Visitors to a cemetery shall enter and leave the cemetery only by means of the entrance. A visitor shall close and re-secure any gate he/she opens at a cemetery.
2. Visitors shall not walk on any of the shrubberies, gravespaces or enclosures but shall confine themselves to the paths or avenues therein where provided.
3. Visitors shall not interfere with any of the tombs or monuments or headstones or with any flowers, shrubs or wreaths within the cemetery.
4. Save as set out at (V) below no person shall allow or cause a dog or other animal to enter a cemetery.
5. Guide dogs accompanying persons with visual impairment are permitted to enter a cemetery
6. No vehicles shall be allowed enter the cemetery with the exception of funeral cars and vehicles or wheelchairs carrying disabled persons. Maintenance vehicles will be allowed by prior permission of the Caretaker or where applicable, the Cemetery Manager.

Misconduct

15.

The Caretaker or, where applicable, the Cemetery Manager or any agent of the Council shall at all times be entitled and at liberty to remove from the cemetery any person who may be guilty of misconduct therein, and to prevent any person from entering the cemetery at prohibited times.

All persons shall conduct themselves in a decent, quiet and orderly manner while in a cemetery and no person shall:-

1. Wilfully create any disturbance in a cemetery.
2. Commit any nuisance in a cemetery.
3. Wilfully interfere with any burial taking place in a cemetery.
4. Wilfully interfere with any gravespace or vault, any tombstone or any other memorial or any plants on any such gravespace.
5. Play at any game or sport in a cemetery.
6. Ride a bicycle, skateboard or other similar machine in a cemetery.
7. Cause damage to headstones.
8. Dump waste, litter or cause fly tipping.
9. Permit trespass by animals

Selling Articles

33.

No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale any articles, commodity or thing of any kind whatsoever or solicit for orders from the public within the cemetery. Any person soliciting orders within the cemeteries for the erection or repair of memorials will be required to leave the cemeteries and will not be admitted again without the permission of the Council.

Television and Cameras

34.

The use of still, cine and television cameras shall not be used to photograph mourners or any part of a funeral cortege within the cemetery, without the prior consent of the Council and the immediate family.  This however, does not preclude the Council from installing and maintaining Close Circuit Television (CCTV) for the purposes of security and public safety.

Damage

38.

Any damage done to lawns, gravespaces, walls, drives, trees, shrubs or other property by non-cemetery workers must be repaired by those persons causing such damage.

Writing on Monuments

40.

No person shall write any word or symbol upon any monument which would give rise to public offence.